Trump reminds us about valor thief Blumenthal
According to the Washington Post, President Trump is beating up on valor thief Connecticut Senator The Dick Blumenthal for his famous theft of valor for which Blumenthal was forced to apologize. Blumenthal used a spot on CNN to attack the Trump Administration yesterday which prompted the counter-attack;
“Politicizing the Department of Justice for personal ends, I think, is a disservice to the law, and it’s also potentially a violation of the spirit of the First Amendment,” Blumenthal said, suggesting the department was “weaponizing” laws against leaking sensitive information.
“Never in U.S.history has anyone lied or defrauded voters like Senator Richard Blumenthal,” Trump wrote on Twitter shortly afterward. “He told stories about his Vietnam battles and … conquests, how brave he was, and it was all a lie. He cried like a baby and begged for forgiveness like a child.”
Interesting to watch Senator Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut talking about hoax Russian collusion when he was a phony Vietnam con artist!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 7, 2017
The Post reminds us of the Blumenthal deceit;
Blumenthal obtained several deferments between 1965 and 1970 and then joined the Marine Corps Reserve, but did not serve in Vietnam. He later said he misspoke and intended to say that he was in the Marine Reserve during the Vietnam conflict.
Thanks to Sgt K for the link.
Category: Phony soldiers, Valor Vultures
Was wondering when this would come up.
Blumenthal has lied about more than his military career. And there are flattering profiles where his characterizations are printed and never retracted – included that he enlisted instead of trying to avoid the draft. He has lied about other parts of his biography as well. A lot of it is very well placed lawyer double-speak – imply something, don’t actually say it, let the listener draw the wrong conclusion. Blumenthal isn’t a layman, he is a very smart lawyer and its completely intentional.
The old “perfectly honorable service pissed all over” comes to mind.
BUT, what he has never done is “He told stories about his Vietnam battles and … conquests, how brave he was, and it was all a lie.”
Even when calling someone else a liar, the President cannot tell the truth?
“BUT, what he has never done is “He told stories about his Vietnam battles and … conquests, how brave he was..”
perhaps, perhaps not…have you been privy to his conversations everywhere at all times. I find the probability that he would make the claims he did and never tell a war story exceedingly unlikely.
I was actually digging before he posted this. The worst I could find was a clear lie about serving in Vietnam, but no details provided of that imaginary service.
If there are people who have heard him recounting fake battles or bravery, their stories were not published as of this AM.
The lie was good enough. Why embellish the embellishment? Then Blumenthal called telling the (mostly) truth about him bullying, to escalate to a triple embellishment and my head hurts.
“he has never”
You stated with certainty an uncertainty. I’m just saying I find it improbable, which is no more certain or uncertain than your statement.
Fair enough. I should never rely on a liar not having told a lie. I just assumed when his lies went mainstream during his Senate run, those people would have come forward to tell their stories of him claiming all kinds of things. A lot of old videos and first hand accounts did come out, but it was always very generic implication he was in Vietnam, without any details of what he did there.
I agree that what is easily verified on the net is as you say.
That was what Trump was addressing. Blumenthal claims he served in Vietnam. He has never claimed he was a supply pogue, or a water dog, etc, so the clear implication to be made was that he was a grunt over there.
In one post you called Blumenthal:
1) a very smart lawyer
2) an honorable service member
And accused President Trump of:
1) lying
2) making defamatory statements
Conclusion, Texas Nomads is a Democrat socialist operative.
You’d make a shitty detective.
How about you tell me which one of those statements is inaccurate?
1- He didn’t just misspeak, because precise language is his job description. This isn’t the drunk guy at the VA recounting his fake heroism, its very specific and intentional.
2. I’m not sure how you’d characterize 6 years in the Marine Reserves, but I’m not aware of anything about his service which would call it into question. He didn’t begin lying until his political career began.
1. I am not aware of any time Blumenthal did recount battles or bravery – again – your opportunity to illuminate and vindicate.
2. Actually, I don’t agree it was defamatory statement since it was mostly accurate. Just an embellishment.
” He didn’t begin lying until his politic…”
It’s more likely that nobody noticed his lying because nobody was paying attention to him until he went into politics. I doubt that his character suddenly changed.
If he is a very smart lawyer he is smart enough to know that battles and bravery are implied by a claim of being a Marine officer in Vietnam. He knew full well that listeners would assume he was in combat, otherwise why claim to be in Vietnam?
Now we’re trying to stretch the truth of what he knew or intended. A lie is a lie. This:
‘“He told stories about his Vietnam battles and … conquests, how brave he was, and it was all a lie.”’
is a lie.
Or at very minimum an embellishment. And wholly unnecessary because Blumenthal’s lies stand on his own. This part about knowing what it felt like to be hated because he was in uniform are disgusting enough on their own.
But like Blumenthal cannot help to embellish the tale…
you know when even the NY Times is savaging a Democrat, that’s pretty bad. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/18/nyregion/18blumenthal.html?pagewanted=all
Blumentard served “six years” or whatever in a reserve unit created especially for politicos in the District of Criminals. I don’t think it is possible to get farther away from the sound of the guns in wartime. His major military accomplishment is some Marine “Toys for Tots” campaigns. He fought the battle of the Barbies.
Ah, the Barbie Battle of 69 for Hill 44D.
I remember it well.
I tried to climb those massive hills myself a time or two. It was worse than Macho Grande.
…nothing was worse than Macho Grande
The p.o.s. is a lawyer, how could you ever expect something honorable out of the wart on the ass of humanity?
I’ll never get over Macho Grande… or Elaine Ricci.
Senior, can’t we all just let Elaine Rest In Peace? Her family is still trying to heal, what with her whereabouts unknown. Going from super Vice President of a major IT player in the beltway to becoming a missing person is such a tragedy. #FindElaine
““weaponizing” laws against leaking sensitive information.”
So, you mean, charging people with the laws they broke? The fact that he threw in “sensitive information” is even all the more damning. If it’s sensitive, isn’t it that more important that people are held to account?
Blumenthal actually said, “Politicizing the Department of Justice for personal ends, I think, is a disservice to the law…”?
So it was okay when Obama did it?
Obama and Holder gave guns to the Mexican cartels to try and defeat the 2nd Amendment. Nothing political in that.(sarc)
Obama and Holder lied, Brian A. Terry died.
And no doubt several hundred to several thousand Mexican bystanders with the guns they ran illegally at the same time they worked against our God Given Right to Self Defense…
That’s a big deal. A huge deal actually as he weaseled past it the last time as the media did their best to hide it and not hold him accountable. Now though? Well every damn person on the planet is going to know now. Dude just got outed in, literally, the biggest way possible.
Good on the president for calling out this asshole. Tricky Dick Blumenthal is a disgrace.
Nancy Pelosi’s twin brother separated at birth.
I see Dickie Bird is at it again, dragging his bony ass around to get attention.
How is there any difference between him and Shirley ‘The Impeachment Mouth’ Jackson Lee?
Why do these A-Holes claim they served in South east Asia when they did not.?? I did my time but did not serve there and that’s the fact Jack. So what is so hard about saying that. Know what I mean Jelly Bean!!
Not only does he claim that, but used it to jump on the pity train.
To paraphrase the 1974 classic, “Forget it, Jake. It’s Connecticut.”
A really slippery slope. I tell true stories of being an airmobile combat cook, and everyone thinks I’m lying.
I usually just tell ’em about being drunk for 10 months in Germany. That they believe. (Also true.)
I tell people I was in the Navy and they usually just lose interest at that point.
I usually say “when I was in, it wasn’t an adventure, it was a job”
**guffaw**
I like to throw out the squid credential and then stay quiet while the Army and Marines vets start rolling out the infantry/airborne/hard life stories.
Yeah, I was just a squid. What would I know bout that kinda stuff. 🙂
You are a devious, devious man. That is why we all love you. Well, that and the fact that you will seemingly jump on any “grenade” and take one for the team.
SARC
Did you here that?
No, it was the shot not taken.
The Stranger was almost the “Strait Set Up Man” in bash the Corpsman.
Love You Squiddly
P.S. May the dirt never come out of your water.
I like to throw out the squid credential and then stay quiet….
Ahhhh … the classic L-shaped ambush.
But what would a squid know?
/sarc
When some vet sees my PH plates on my truck I am asked what branch I was in. I always reply “Navy, how about you”? I watch their eyes glaze over as I say Navy, then their chest pops out and they say Airborne/GB/or Marine. When the Marine answers I tell him I was one of those that made him change his socks and was the one that answered to “Corpsman Up” when he got wounded. I then have a new life long friend.
It’s not just a job, it’s an indenture!
Navy is OK, bud. You give us corpsmen and rides.
I did not serve in the Viet of the Nam and never told anyone I did. I am proud that I just served my country! If you served at all, just be proud of that? Everyone’s job was important! It doesn’t matter if you were the tail gunner on a taco truck or a super seekrit squirrel, just be proud that you served and don’t spread a bunch of bullshit lies like my pos brother! What is so hard about telling the truth? Then you don’t have to remember any of the lies you have spread before? Get it now asshole??
Blumenthal is an asshole valor thief.
Sorry, i misspoke.
Blumenthal is a flaming asshole valor thief
He was a “Flaming Asshole”? When was he ever in the California Army National Guard(the 40th U.S. Infantry Division, the real “Flaming Assholes”).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/40th_Infantry_Division_(United_States)
Trump just irritates the shit out of me…and I gave his campaign money and my vote…why stoop to bozo Blumenthal’s level? If anything, let Kelly professionally put him in his place given his impeccable credentials…run the fucking country, Trump, and only punch in your weight class or higher…keep your head out of the day to day political crap..you have plenty of allies and subordinates to do the dirty work
Trumps slays another shitbag via Twitter.
I see a lot of CT plates around here in the summer. I’m sure there are lots of good people in CT but I just can’t help seeing that photo of Richard “the Dick” Blumenthal on every damn one of them.
Who was that congress critter who claimed to have flown combat missions in the Viet of the Nam but never came close to any Vietnamese airspace, north or south?
That would be the great and glorious former Senator Tom Harkin of Iowa.
That would be Tom Harkin. When challenged by Barry Goldwater, he switched to combat missions over Cuba, but finally under pressure admitted he was stationed at Atsugi, flying repair jobs from there to the P.I.
(Stolen Valor, B. G. Burkett, p.182)
Nobody misspeaks about their military service. Anyone who doesn’t know when/where they served lying. Some things (in my case, anyway) get ‘vague’ over time but forgetting one did not serve in Nam of the Viet is not being forgetful. It’s being a poser.
Yep it should be fairly obvious to yourself if you were there or not.
This seems like a preemptive strike by The Washington Post, which apparently has given up all pretense of doing objective journalism anymore. Those who have been paying attention might have noticed that late last week the Post released leaked phone transcripts of President Trump calls. One was between Trump and Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto, the other with Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull.
Consider the ramifications. No longer are the private communications of the President of the United States with other world leaders safe. Apparently some White House insiders with a need to push a political agenda, and the need for the Post to get more page clicks are more important than the safety and security of the republic. Not to mention simple common courtesy.
Most of the community of responsible journalists, that’s not an oxymoron, those who still care about the public trust granted by the 1st Amendment, likely find this an outrageous violation of professional ethics. By doing it, the Post is also making it potentially harder on those scribblers who don’t feel the need to act like egg-sucking dogs.
Ben Bradlee and Kate Graham are probably rolling over in their graves about now.
Meanwhile, here comes Blumenthal setting the stage to defend the news media’s right to do anything it wants.
I still don’t understand why Blumenthal beat Linda McMahon for the Senate in 2010, as McMahon was an established job creator with a strong track record. I’m not too familiar with CT…but I did watch a debate between them, in which Blumenthal was asked how job creation works. He hemmed and hawed, averring that there had to be some “partnership” involving several factions, including government. McMahon got right to the point–providing something for sale that others wish to buy. Was this lost on the people of Connecticut? I mean it’s not exactly an impoverished state. Glad that McMahon got the SBA portfolio under Trump. As to Blumenthal, his poser past should never be forgotten. And I doubt whether he has yet learned how to create jobs.
because all the CT congressional reps are Democrats?
Some of us get it, but sadly not enough. Connecticut is failing and falling faster than any other state in the country. We are hostages to the state workers’ union, businesses are leaving due to the unknowns of state sanctioned thievery (read taxes), and the welfare being doled out to a great number of leaches, both personal and corporate. Sprinkle on a hardy helping of retiree flight for warmer climates.
F**ked.
Connecticut will be an example studied in civil mismanagement and unrest by the end of it. You heard it here first.
Cracks I saw firsthand, back in 2013 I talked to a democratic staffer. I asked him about how we made the budget after a projected shortfall. He candidly told me that the only way we made the budget was a couple well-to-do citizens had died and the inheritance tax made the difference.
What?!
Curious – my father served on the Big E well off the coast, but he said he received combat pay, and the planes taking off from said carrier were running sorties over Vietnam. This was in the Seventies.
Is my father a Vietnam veteran? He’s never said that – the joke is that I am more proud of his service than he is – but I wanted to ask the experts here.
If he served in the zone..on land at sea whatever, but in the zone then yes he’s a Vietnam Vet, same as Navy vets engaged in operations but not necessarily boots on the ground.If he was in the zone he was also awarded at least the Vietnam Service Medal or Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal if issued before the VSM was struck.
Anyone here have a copy of his DD214?
Based on the headline of the blog post I hoped you were going to say that Trump being a draft dodging deferment seeking dirt bag who likes to pretend he has experiences similar to Vietnam reminded you of the draft dodging deferment seeking dirt bag Blumenthal who likes to pretend he has Vietnam experience.
Guess I should have known that is not what you were going to say.
kick that hornet’s nest
Blow me, bitch…
Why don’t you go downtown in Berkley, pour some fake blood on yourself and try to run a mom and pop meat market out of business. Not that you would show up and defend them…. Mr. Reservist.
Second time in two days some asshat decided to implicitly disparage the reserves.
Pretty ridiculous considering the number of years deployed reservists have contributed over the last 16 years.
Additionally, it is ridiculous because a significant percentage of reservists are prior regular army active duty.
I have far more active duty time than most veterans, and unless your name is a strange way of implying “sergeant major” then I sure as shit have more active duty time than you, sergeant.
Also, it is spelled “Berkeley”.
Oh its Mr spellun wizard now. You totally missed the gist of my post. As a soldier you should be helping those that cannot help themselves. An asshat like you would miss that. The crowd pouring fake blood on themselves and bullying a mom and pop store should be why you serve, to stop those domestic terrorists. It really is all about YOU isn’t it.
Some off my best friends finished out their careers in the reserves. So fuck off and die Mr. Reservist from BERKLY.
Yeah, it’s really spelled Berzerkeley, as it was in the 1960s and 1970s.
It’s amazing how consistent COMMISSAR Commissar THE PIUPERDINKY POODLEDICK is when he posts his comments about nearly everything. Trying to pick a fight over nothing again is a bad habit on his part. And then there’s that consistent attempt, such a trademark of a weak and useless ego, to derail the subject under discussion so that HE gets the attention focused ON HIM.
So consistent and so obvious.
It’s similar to stepping in fresh dogshit. It becomes the focus, everything else fades until you scrape it off.
I keep wondering if there’s a Bay Area market for a Lars bobble-head doll. Put it in the back window of your car, and every time you hit a bump, the head bounces and it says stuff like:
“Communism is a debunked theory that has not legitimate political followers in the US.”
or
“I have far more active duty time than most veterans.”
And so forth…
My other idea is for a t-shirt with a graphic of Snoopy doing the happy dance, and the caption: “Lars hates me!”
I’ll take two of those t-shirts.
Black, size extra large please!
HEY Babbles McButthead, according to one account President Trump was medically disqualified from serving but birdbrained babbling buttheads like you would just say he or his Dad merely bribed a Doctor to say that.
Yeah. It’s a shame he beat that heroic sniper-fire survivor of the Balkan Wars, Hillary. The one married to that other draft-dodging President.
Perhaps Trump should have run as a Democrat, like those other heroes– Clinton, Clinton, Hart, Kerry, Harkin, LBJ, etc.
Correction;
that should be “…that actual draft-dodging President” rather than “…other draft-dodging…” since draft deferment is not draft-dodging.
If you hang around long enough, anything is possible. When I came back from the “Nam” if someone would have told me people would actually lie about being there, I would have told them they were out of their mind! Most who served there, came home, took off the uniform, and did not talk about it for decades! Now it’s a “cottage” industry.
Yep, it’s a lot more popular to be a Viet Nam vet now.
They say that nowadays each and every legit Vietnam Veteran has at least ten to fifteen posers riding his coattails.
Senator Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut is a super-sized steaming pile of Phil Monkress.
Dick Blumenthal looks like he could suck a golf ball though a garden hose… and suck the chrome off a trailer hitch in less than 5 seconds.
Professional cocksucking politician…
11 Bravo, Infantry. Served in Vietnam. Former Connecticut resident.
Slick Dickey Blumenthal actually shook my hand at a dedication of a Cobera gun ship memorial in Waterbury Connecticut and said “I’m a Vietnam Vet, but I didn’t serve in combat” when he saw the CIB on my field jacket. He did the same exact thing to a fellow Vietnam vet, who was a Marine standing next to me! Later, it came out that he was/is full of shit! What an a-hole!
“I have no idea about what is in his mind. What I do know is I will not be distracted by this bullying.”
From an article at Powerline
http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2017/08/trump-savages-richard-blumenthal-on-twitter.php
Apparently the Dick is using the Janis Spann defense.
“I will not be bullied.”
From
http://www.recordgazette.net/spann-resigns-over-fraudulent-military-service-allegations/article_f1031f8e-72de-11e7-a1f7-9bea0a90754f.html
“I like Dick” Blumenthal was on the news this morning playing the victim and saying he and the American people would not be bullied by Trump, Honorable Veterans or any one else.
I assume by “American People” he means the substandard discharge and poser crowd who he repeatedly champions while disrespecting those that sucked it up and got it done.
Got hand it to him, he plays a good victim. And serves a “good role (pole) model” for the aforementioned turds in their quest for self-respect and being able to look the public in the face.
Clowns and losers.
IMHO DICK Blumenthal still looks like the type of meat gazer that likes to tap his toe in men’s room stalls.
“Blood and Guts” stolen valor Senator Blumenthal reminds me of a person with symptomatic tetanus (“cellophane facies”). I wonder how he handles the humiliation on air in front of millions of people ?
Once again Dickey..”South Carolina ain’t South Viet Nam”. Look at the map. You did not misspeak !
CAPT Bones USN (ret)